Valentines is one of my favorite holidays for flora! Red roses abound, and the tradition of flower giving prevails. One of the joys of paper flower making is the ability to create flowers in unusual, rare and wonderful colors. Fantastic creations like red lotus, red asters, and others are possible. There’s no end to what…
The winter holidays are the traditional season for hanging wreaths on your door. In honor of the Yule season, this wreath features holy shaped leaves in a metallic green paper that are reminiscent of the glossiness of the natural leaves. Greening the Wreath I decided to stay with traditional holiday colors of red, green and…
Ammar Paper Flowers wishes everyone a very festive winter holiday! Lighting the Tree I’m a huge fan of green lights. I like the way they convey earthiness. I use the green to wrap around the trunk to give life and form to the tree. Next are some wonderful floral bright whites that I picked up…
When I began this start-up of mine in January 2016, my marketing goal was to reach 100 Instagram followers before the end of 2016! On November 18, 2016 I reached this goal!! I want to thank everyone who has participated, and has supported me through the year. I was amazed that I could indeed…
I Loved! Loved! Loved! making this wreath! This was my first wreath of paper flowers, and honestly, it came out MUCH MUCH better than my wreath of natural flowers from my Flower Arrangements class at CCSF. A Wreath The wreath idea started because I happened to have a wreath form on-hand and because ‘St Patricks…
Flax used to be in a wonderful location. There was easy access from an intersection that the traffic light favored. I could walk there if i felt adventurous, or get there by Muni. They even had parking spaces unlike most commercial locations in SF, and they were even right in front. But alas, like…
Today was a number crunching day. It’s rainy outside, kinda cold, and not really inspiring me to do more than eat sugar-free chocolate bars and flavored decaf Krups coffee. (Although I did clean up my fish tank and now have soggy sleeves, still, two hours later!) But back to number crunching… I love love love…
It’s a typical overcast day in SF. No sunlight to enhance my photos and a highly likely chance of rain. The latter is the driving force of why I package my creations as I do. Foremost, my creations are made of paper. This is not the most durable of substances to the raw elements of weather.…
I finally found the miraculous inspiration to come up with a brand, logo, whatnot, and then apply it to my network of sites. For some reason, lilac had been calling to me all week as I contemplated what to do. It used to be my teen-aged favorite color (early childhood was yellow) but since college…
Fuzzy fuzzy fuzzy. Here I thought it was me. That when I was image crunching I was completely destroying the quality of the photo. But time and again the crunched image looked as bad as the originals. Then I thought I wasn’t getting the camera app setting right. So I futzed and tweated, and nothing…
I think its the Irish in me that has made this project so much fun. My mother is half Irish … well Northern Irish – so I should be adding some orange to these arrangements – which I’m obviously not. Through my father I’m Scot-Irish – which were really Scots that left Scotland to settled in…
I started this venture with the promise of marketing for the upcoming Valentine season. My goal was to have 5 centerpieces created by February 1st. This would provide enough time for buying customers to have the centerpiece shipped to them. I didn’t quite make my own deadline, but I came close enough to be satisfied and…
Today I sold my second arrangement of handmade paper flowers. This arrangement was a custom order from a friend of mine seeking a Valentine’s Day gift for his wife. It’s still odd calling her his wife even though they’ve been married for a few years, because she was his girlfriend for alot longer. Custom…
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